Word: performance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Though a few may be benefited, yet the University club would not bring permanent social improvement.- (a) Increased numbers of the University would render it impossible for a University club to perform intended functions.- (1) In ten or twenty years proposed club could extend its advantages to comparatively few men.- (x) It is very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then...
...College under the existing elective system. The President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives us the striking fact that the courses most largely taken, which altogether involve about twice as much work as one student could perform in four years, comprise only one-eighth of the whole amount of instruction offered by Harvard College. The "other seven-eighths," he observes, "although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the wants of a comparatively...
...each; Geology, one elementary course and two kindred half courses, one in Physical Geography and the other in Meteorology. The President then shows that if the courses in this list are summed up they contain an amount of work at least twice as great as any undergraduate can perform in four years. The amount of instruction on the list may be roughly computed to be about one-eighth of the total amount of instruction offered by Harvard College; but this eighth meets the chief want of the great majority of the students, and the other seven-eighths, although indispensable...
...giving her the praise she deserves. Mr. Murray had the exacting role of Count di Luna, and there was considerable interest among his admirers in his rendition of the part. But Mr. Murray rose to the occasion, which is the hardest task he will ever be called upon to perform. The Count's music was given with immense force and convincing fervor. Mr. Murray always fills the imagination of his audience-he rarely oversteps, and in repose continually suggests the fervor and vindictive spirit of the Count...
When we try to estimate and fathom life, we at once see some prominent qualities which all life possesses. The first is the necessity for universal labor. To every human being is allotted a certain amount of work. If one person fails to perform his share, it falls to the portion of some other man to do, in addition to his own. There are no lands or peoples free from this inexorable condition of toil...